Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

In Rebel Without a Crew famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez Sin City Sin City 2 Once Upon a Time in Mexico Spy Kids discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film El Mariachi on a shoestring budget This is both one man s remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams and determination to see it through Part production diary part how to manual Rodriguez unveils how he was able to make his influential first film on only a 7 000 budget Also included is the appendix The Ten Minute Film Course a tell all on how to save thousands of dollars on film school and teach yourself the ropes of film production directing and screenwriting